The problems of instinctive demonisation of the enemy and the impossibility of realising his "subjectivity", which Vasia touches on in his series, are reminiscent of the research of modern anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, who studies the features of the worldview of Amazonian tribes.
In his book "Cannibal Metaphysics" (2014), the anthropologist analyses the war songs of the Araweté tribe. In them, the warrior speaks about himself through the song from the point of view of a dead enemy. The victim-enemy, who is both the subject and the theme of the song, speaks of the Araweté he killed and of his own killer — who is the one who sings, that is, the one who "speaks" the words of the dead enemy.
In this series, the goal is similar: to discover one's true attitude towards the enemy through the definition of his non/subjectivity. Thus, through demonisation, harsh and painful for Vasia himself, he actually expresses the remnants of his humanism — he allows the "dead Muscovites" their last subjectivity.

Text by Volodymyr Chyhrynets